Behaviour support specialists needed in Lambeth

We are looking for a person who is confident working with and supporting students with very challenging behaviour across the primary school key stages. The role is based within an academy in the Kennington area working with children who struggle to engage with education and supporting them to learn. Although this role is temporary, there is a possibility for it to become long-term. The successful person must be able to handle challenging behaviour in a calm and structured manner and be able to create working relationships with students quickly. The school will provide support and a detailed understanding of the children as well as appropriate resources to implement your plans to ensure learning is engaging and structured. You will need to be flexible, have plenty of enthusiasm, motivation, good communication skills and the ability to work 1:1 or with small groups on specific programmes if required. The most important part of your role is to create and promote positive outcomes and improve pupils social and emotional developments. This is improved by clear boundaries and structure, to create emotional stability and physical safety. This is a full-time support position up until the end of the 2020/2021 academic school year, with a competitive salary. Responsibilities: ? Managing pupil's behaviour. ? Ensuring students engage with lessons, providing academic support and working under the instruction of the class teacher. ? Helping the students with their life skills. For this role, you will have: ? Experience working in specialist schools such as SEN schools, Pupil Referral Units or in Youth Work. ? Previous support work within a school or other child related experience. ? Strong behaviour management and confident with challenging behaviour. ? Happy to work one to one and small group work. ? An enthusiastic and friendly, yet firm approach. Apply now with an up-to-date CV and all successful candidates will be contacted to progress their application. Please note: We undertake safeguarding checks on all our workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education'. As part of these checks, we require a current Enhanced DBS Disclosure for everyone working in schools. If you do not have a valid subscription to the DBS Update Service, we will require you to complete a new DBS application as part of the registration process, at a cost of £40.00